Chuck Liddell

“The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.”

“When I'm training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It's all planned, and that's what I eat.”

“That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.”

“You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.”

“I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.”

“People got to understand, the fighters at the top are the fighters that are supposed to get paid because they're the guys that are bringing people in, bringing eyes to the TV, getting pay-per-views buys, and putting people in the seats. I mean, that's what it comes down to.”

“Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.”

“I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.”

“I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.”

“I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.”

“I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though.”

“I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.”

“I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.”

“It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.”

“You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.”

“Jon Jones is a great fighter.”

“I've never been intimidated by anyone.”

“Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.”

“I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.”

“I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.”